Lindows.com said today that retailing giant Wal-Mart will sell the operating system as a standalone application, in addition to being bundled on PCs the store sells. A new line of “MP3 PCs” will also treat digital music as just another software application to be purchased.

Microsoft’s SPOT smart objects might indeed be tomorrow’s technology  if you were living in the 1980’s. That’s because the technology used in SPOT, FM subcarrier transmission, was originally used as a last-gasp effort by the Atari 2600 to distribute games wirelessly over the radio.

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